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Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Now in a new deluxe edition with a foreword by Chuck Palahniuk and cover by Joe Sacco, here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the struggle through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy’s heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them all imprisoned.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s NestIntroductionChronologyI. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: The Text

II. The Author and His WorkTOM WOLFE, What Do You Think of My Buddha?KEN KESEY, An Early Draft of the Opening Scene of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s NestKEN KESEY, Letter to Ken Babbs: [”Peyote and Point of View”]KEN KESEY, Letter to Ken Babbs: [”People on the Ward”]KEN KESEY, Characters on the WardKEN KESEY, Draft Page with Holograph RevisionsKEN KESEY, from An Impolite Interview with Ken KeseyKEN KESEY, from Ken Kesey Was a Successful Dope FiendKEN KESEY, Who Flew Over What?

III. Literary CriticismJACK F. MCCOMB, The RPMLESLIE A. FIEDLER, The Higher SentimentalityTERRY G. SHERWOOD, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and the Comic StripJAMES E. MILLER, JR., The Humor in the HorrorJOSEPH J. WALDMEIR, Two Novelists of the Absurd: Heller and KeseyJOHN A. BARSNESS, Ken Kesey: The Hero in Modern DressIRVING MALIN, Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s NestROBERT BOYERS, Porno-PoliticsHAROLD CLURMAN, Review of the PlayWALTER KERR, …And the Young Flew Over the Cuckoo’s NestMARCIA L. FALK, Letter to the Editor of The New York TimesLESLIE HORST, Bitches, Twitches, and Eunuchs: Sex-Role Failure and CaricatureANNETTE BENERT, The Voices of Fear: Kesey’s Anatomy of InsanityBENJAMIN GOLUBOFF, The Carnival Artist in the Cuckoo’s NestMARSHA MCCREADIE, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Some Reasons for One Happy AdaptationCAROL PEARSON, The Cowboy Saint and the Indian Poet: The Comic Hero in Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

IV. Analogies and PerspectivesDALE WASSERMAN, from his play One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s NestMARY FRANCES ROBINSON, Ph.D., and WALTER FREEMAN, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.P., Glimpses of Postlobotomy PersonalitiesARTHUR P. NOYES, M.D., and LAWRENCE C. KOLB, M.D., Shock and Other Physical TherapiesRALPH ELLISON, from Invisible ManROBERT PENN WARREN, from All the King’s MenKEN KESEY, Neal CassadyJACK KEROUAC, from On the Road